Thomson, Trisha Suzanne

Breastfeeding initiation rates are rising in Canada; however, the duration rates remain far below what is recommended internationally. Maternal breastfeeding confidence has been supported in the literature as a key variable influencing breastfeeding initiation and duration; community health nurses (CHNs) have been identified as positive influences on breastfeeding outcomes. Because breastfeeding has positive effects for mothers and infants, examining specific CHN practices and their effects on b...

Keays, Kimberley Susan

Background and Purpose: Our purpose was to examine the effects of Pilates exercises on shoulder range of motion (ROM), pain, mood, and upper extremity (UE) function in women who had been treated for breast cancer. Participants: Participants were four women who had undergone axillary dissection and radiation therapy for Stage I-III breast cancer. Methods: A non-concurrent, multiple baseline, single subject research design was used to examine the effects of Pilates exercises on the four outcomes. ...

Regier, Michael David

Objective Understanding the clinical, cultural, social, demographic and economic landscape that affects end-of-life health service utilization for British Columbian cancer patients is novel work. The location of death was taken as the initial use of health services to investigate. The goals for this thesis are to understand the trends in the place of death from 1997 to 2003 for adult British Columbians that died of cancer, understand which predictive factors of dying out of hospital, devel...

Bahri Iraei , Tila

Objectives: Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) such as poverty, parental substance use and parental incarceration can have negative influences on the physical and mental growth and development of children. The Elizabeth Fry (EFry) Society of Greater Vancouver, which provides a variety of services to children impacted by ACE in British Columbia, expressed interest in knowing about the oral health status of the clients they serve, so that appropriate support and services could be developed as nee...

Clayton, Cam

Objectives: (1) Develop a protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a novel physical activity (PA) counseling intervention to increase bouted moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) time (bout ≥ 10 minutes at ≥ 3 Metabolic Equivalents [METs]) and decrease bouted sedentary time (bout > 20 minutes at ≤ 1.5 METs) for people with knee osteoarthritis (OA), and (2) conduct a secondary baseline analysis to assess the relationships between a measure of patient engagement and bouted...

Song, Di

In gas-solid fluidized beds, the generation of electrostatic charges due to continuous contacts between fluidizing particles, and the particles and the fluidization vessel wall, is unavoidable. Industrial operations, such as the production of polyethylene, are susceptible to significant operational challenges caused by electrostatics including reactor wall fouling, a problem known as “sheeting”. The formation of particle sheets can require shutdown periods for clean-up which results in significa...

Ekström, Andrea

This data-driven linguistic study investigates if levels of different types of foreign language communication anxiety, such as for speaking, listening, writing and/or reading that Swedish students in compulsory school (grades 7-9) and upper secondary school experience when communicating in English in their foreign language classes have any correlation to sociolinguistic variables such as gender, age, performance and/or multilingual competence. The compiled and analyzed self-report data have succ...

Balut, Mary Ann

<p> Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. It is estimated that one of every five deaths annually in the United States is directly related to smoking, and that smoking is responsible for several different cancers as well as acute and chronic disease (Center for Disease Control, 2013a). Despite the years of anti-smoking campaigns and evidence supporting the catastrophic health and environmental effects of smoking, 41.2 million American adult...

Anderson, Kristin

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-106). / This thesis is concerned with the conceptions of three key and interactive groups - human rights lawyers/advocacy officers, asylum seekers and refugees, and Department of Home Affairs officials - who are in different ways involved with asylum seekers and refugees in Cape Town in the dual contexts of the new rights-based Constitution and the recurrence of political xenophobia. More specifically the thesis investigates their respective concept...

Etinosa, Omoruyi Beauty

Cryptosporidiosis is an infection caused by Cryptosporidium; a protozoan parasite that infects the gastrointestinal tract. The infection is of major public health concern in both developed and developing countries. Faecal samples were collected from 160 in-patient adults, with complaint of diarrhoea, admitted at Victoria hospital in Alice, Nkonkobe Municipality. Twenty apparently healthy subjects were included as controls. All diarrhoea positive patients were interviewed to record socio-demograp...

Tannenbaum, Esta-Lee

Bibliography: leaves 63-71.

Gelman, Tamara

Includes bibliographical references. / This study reports upon the point prevalence of possible minor psychiatric morbidity in students attending the Student Health Service at the University of Cape Town. It also establishes the prevalence of exposure to trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and substance abuse (alcohol and drugs) and assesses adjustment to university as well as financial and academic coping. Relationships amongst variables of interest are examined. The study establishes, also, ...

Brännberg Fogelström, Julia, Lundius, Amelie, Pousette, Hedda

Properties and origins of two byproducts from steelmaking plants, slag and acidic wastewater, are investigated in this report. The slags' suitability as neutralizing agents of acidic wastewater from the pickling process, with regard to amount of slag required and the environmental impact of the produced byproducts is investigated. Currently, lime concentrate – which is a finite resource – is used as a neutralizing agent at steel production plants. Because one of the most abundant components in s...

Andersson, Simon

More deaths are caused every year by indoor air pollution than malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis combined. Cooking with traditional fuels such as charcoal and fuelwood with poor ventilation causes the single most important environmental health risk factor worldwide. It also contributes to environmental issues such as deforestation as traditional biomass fuels and cooking stoves are inefficient and requires large quantities of wood. This is especially critical in Africa where the largest regiona...

Rosenwasser, Beth

Educational Psychology / Ph.D. / In an effort to adapt a prize-based attendance and abstinence reinforcement program to the group therapy modality typically found in community substance abuse treatment, this study applied a contingency management (CM) procedure to behavior outcomes of the group as a whole. An algorithmic shaping percentile schedule was used to establish the outcome criteria determining group access to prize bowl drawings. Both the shaping schedule and hypothesized positive socia...

De Villiers, Lecia

Mini-dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Homeopathy, Durban Institute of Technology, 2006. / It was my perception, after having worked in the Complementary and Alternative Medicines Industry, that the knowledge and understanding of homeopathy by retail providers, was poor. Considering that pharmacies also sold over-the- counter homeopathic medicine, I felt it would be of value to do an empirical study in order to obtain more ...

Vester, Heike Iris

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Loots, Francois Jacobus

[Aims of Dissertation and Investigation, p. ix-x] The aim of this dissertation is to analyse and evaluate the results of the new junior secondary course in respect of the dull-normal child ... How well did the junior secondary course succeed in meeting the needs of the dull-normal child? That is the question which this investigation will attempt to answer.

Howland, Sarah Caroline

Purpose: Hearing loss is a common problem worldwide, and there is an ever- increasing need for more audiologists to be trained. Unfortunately, audiology students cannot always get the clinical experience they need during training. Virtual reality involving computer-based simulation of real-life training experiences is one way of compensating for this. While there are several virtual audiometers available for student use, few of these include the vital case history component. This study sought to...

Bond, Daniel Alan

The use of two online sensors, the S::CAN and the FLD, was used to evaluate the treatment of synthetic wastewater by UV/H₂O₂ advanced oxidation. The UV dose and intensity for the flow through reactor was also determined using H₂O₂ actinometry. The total power of the lamps in the reactor was determined to be 139 W which, with the absorbance of the water, produced a UV dose of 39.4 mJ/cm². It was determined that the S::CAN was unable to differentiate between treatment of a particular water, howeve...

Kona, Vuyisa Nonelwa.

Learning through a language other than one's own mother-tongue presents similar problems world-wide. In South Africa, the shift from mother-tongue tuition to learning through the medium of English at Grade 5 (approximately 10 years of age) has a highly problematic and contested history. This study addresses the problem with specific reference to the SMILE project, the theories of Marcel Jousse and Outcomes Based Education. In Chapter One, the study examines the context of learning and gives an i...

Miller, Heidi Lucy

Thesis (M.Tech.: Chiropractic)- Dept. of Chiropractic, Durban Institute of Technology, 2004 128 leaves / Background: Lower back pain is a common problem, globally, as well as in South Africa. Zulu is the first language of a very large proportion of the South African population, and as such, addressing the needs of this population group with respect to lower back pain is a priority. Many reliable pain indexes exist in English to record the degree of disability with regard to Lower back pain. The...

Kriel, Achmat

Thesis (M.Tech.: Chiropractic)-Dept. of Chiropractic, Durban Institute of Technology, 2005 / Optimal ventilation of the lungs is essential to the function of the human body. Our lungs can be expanded and contracted by the elevation and depression of the ribs. This causes an increase and decrease of the anteroposterior diameter of the chest cavity and the lungs are then expanded by raising the rib cage. There are several different dysfunctions which the ribs are subjected to. These dysfunction...

Redmond, Emily Ja Young

Sarcopenia – muscle loss that occurs with aging – is a growing concern affecting physical strength and function. This thesis assessed whether 1) the anabolic response of protein metabolism to a meal is impaired in older sarcopenic women – a phenomenon we believe to be largely responsible for the daily imbalance between protein synthesis (S) and breakdown that ultimately causes muscle loss, 2) meal supplementation with leucine (LEU), an essential amino acid which has been shown to stimulate prote...

Taggart, James L. C.

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Chan, Hin-fai, Gregory.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 83). Also available in print.

Ip, Chiu-kwan.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Yeung, Shiu-kwan, Stephen.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 171-176). Also available in print.

Gururaja, Srinivas.

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 19, 2008) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Liu, Pao-Lo. Includes bibliographical references.

Karadeniz, Deniz,

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Rolla, 2007. / Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Accompanying "this dissertation is a CD-ROM, which contains site amplification and seismic hazard results for each grid point (1974 points) considered in the study. The results have prepared as .txt files. The CD-ROM also contains the maps generated from these estimated results. The maps are prepared as .png files." Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed January 2...

Rumpagaporn, Methinee Wongwanich

This portfolio of research aimed to examine the integration of Information and Communication Technology ( ICT ) into computer-based classroom learning environments in Thailand. The study was exploratory, investigating to what extent schools in the Thai ICT schools pilot project had classroom learning environments which were related to two student outcomes ( critical thinking skills and attitudes to ICT ) ; and to what extent the classroom learning environments were associated with certain teache...

Munnik, James Barry.

Thesis (M.A. (Psychology)) - Rhodes University, 2007.

Alonzo, Anthony T.,

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Marriage and Family Therapy, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-46).

Rao, Surya,

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the Internet.

Bass, Natalie Tanyia.

Thesis (M.SocSc. (Psychology)) - Rhodes University, 2000. / Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Science (Clinical psychology)

Lee, Mee-oi.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1987. / Also available in print.

Charest, Andre.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-02, page: 0834.

Witterick, Ian James.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-02, page: 0843.

Tully, Tracey Lynn.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Tricco, Andrea C.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Angela Colantonio.

Vanderlee, Mary-Louise,

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Carl Corter.

Sung, Lillian.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Sturrup, Jenesta L.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin. School of Nursing, 1973. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Rehr, Erik W.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2006. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-88).

Kohler, Sharon (Cornwell)

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Cincinnati 2005. / Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Feb. 17, 2006). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Ventrice, Domenico.

Diss. Humanmedizin, Universität Bern, Bern. / Titel und Beschreibung vom Lieferanten (19.11.2009).

Byer, Daniel G.

Thesis (Psy. D.)--Wheaton College, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-110).

Cooper, Karen L.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2004. / Typescript. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 49 pages. Includes Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Mowry, Melanie M. Shegog, Ross,

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, page: 1740. Adviser: Ross Shegog. Includes bibliographical references.

Perry, Kaysea,

Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2010. / Project advisor: Scott Johnston. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Mar. 24, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.